The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact On Us
Tanya Lee Stone

Explores how Barbie has influenced generations of girls, discussing criticisms of the doll, her role in fashion, and her surprising popularity during her first fifty years. (TitleWave)



The Legend of the King
Gerald Morris
FIC MOR

Sir Dinadan and his friend Sir Palomides, Sir Gaheris, Sir Terence, and other knights of the Round Table and their associates try to stop Mordred and his White Horsemen from ending King Arthur's rule of Great Britain. (NoveList)

Week of October 18 - 22

Behemoth
Scott Westerfeld
(FIC WES)

Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships. (NoveList)



Hothouse
Chris Lynch
(FIC LYN)

Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath. (NoveList)

The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan
(FIC RIO)

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. (NoveList)